In all my years of studying working and living in the UK and Ireland both North and South I've never had any conversations with colleagues or mates about our LC or A Level results. There may have been a brief chat during freshers week at Uni but I genuinely don't recall it. Simple reason is that it's not the defining moment of our lives. I've been through marriage, divorce, remarriage, fatherhood, house moves, having money, being skint, new jobs, bereavement, illness, being unfit to being fit, moving countries, the crash of 08 leaving me with a new job at the other end of the country and an unsellable house in negative equity at the other end. In other words LIFE. That thing that waster shiv is avoiding. She states she's living differently but she's simply existing and her constant harping on about the LC at 33 is proof of this.